Good new local apps: Field Trip, Girl Scouts Cookie Finder

The app is designed to monitor your location and to ping you periodically about points of interest – historical landmarks, notable bars and restaurants, and more – in your vicinity.

It’s an attractively designed app, the frequency of its pings can be adjusted so it’s not annoying, and it looks to be a good tool for boning up on your surroundings – even your own Twin Cities neighborhood, which you probably don’t know as well as you think.